---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS (Enables Rhode Island businesses to voluntarily promulgate standards to guide its business activities in a sustainable and responsible manner, as well as metrics for assessing whether it has met its objectives.)"
description: "AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS (Enables Rhode Island businesses to voluntarily promulgate standards to guide its business activities in a sustainable and responsible manner, as well as metrics for assessing whether it has met its objectives.)"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ri"
legislature: "Rhode Island General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 5145"
citation: "Rhode Island HB 5145 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Business & Professions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blazejewski", "Craven", "Marszalkowski", "Ruggiero", "Shekarchi"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f0e80f8-b2ed-49d6-8df1-ce2f3f96218c"
source_url: "http://status.rilin.state.ri.us/"
source_hash: "676436b695eafcbce83dc16e9dcace8a846b8420c6bb4c00e04c422eba69f81c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ri"]
---

# Rhode Island HB 5145 (2019) — AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESSES AND PROFESSIONS (Enables Rhode Island businesses to voluntarily promulgate standards to guide its business activities in a sustainable and responsible manner, as well as metrics for assessing whether it has met its objectives.)

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **5145 SUB A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://webserver.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText19/HouseText19/H5145A.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **49–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blazejewski — primary (person)
- Craven — primary (person)
- Marszalkowski — primary (person)
- Ruggiero — primary (person)
- Shekarchi — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-01-17** 01/17/2019 Introduced, referred to House Small Business `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** 02/01/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration
- **2019-02-04** 02/04/2019 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (02/06/2019)
- **2019-03-01** 03/01/2019 Scheduled for hearing and/or consideration (03/05/2019)
- **2019-03-05** 03/05/2019 Committee recommended measure be held for further study
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Scheduled for consideration (06/26/2019)
- **2019-06-24** 06/24/2019 Proposed Substitute
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Committee recommends passage of Sub A `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-26** 06/26/2019 Placed on House Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 House passed Sub A `passage`
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Placed on the Senate Consent Calendar (06/28/2019)
- **2019-06-28** 06/28/2019 Senate passed Sub A in concurrence `passage`
- **2019-07-11** 07/11/2019 Transmitted to Governor `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-15** 07/15/2019 Signed by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f0e80f8-b2ed-49d6-8df1-ce2f3f96218c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Rhode Island legislature records).